https://cassandralesage.cargo.site Cassandra Lesage Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:36:25 +0000 https://cassandralesage.cargo.site en https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/HOME Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:49:19 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/HOME https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/01-THE-EDEGE-OF-THE-RIPARIAN Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:02:06 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/01-THE-EDEGE-OF-THE-RIPARIAN 01 THE EDGE OF THE RIPARIAN PHOTO 2019/12 <img width="3139" height="3007" width_o="3139" height_o="3007" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bee8dd7c1d98ed15668e8c46bd2e21fcdcde9a069ccbcbdfc7ed4366f817cef7/IMG_0226.jpg" data-mid="218437903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bee8dd7c1d98ed15668e8c46bd2e21fcdcde9a069ccbcbdfc7ed4366f817cef7/IMG_0226.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" 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River Watershed, Cambridge, Ontario. https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/02-for-I-had-wished-to-rip-my-eyes-out Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:26:05 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/02-for-I-had-wished-to-rip-my-eyes-out 02 for I had wished to rip my eyes out PHOTO and VIDEO 2024/9 <img width="1895" height="2048" width_o="1895" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2728bc5f18b519de7ab93a05d61197b8599a5954ca99c859a054305d669d1f1d/SoupcolourNeg0000.jpg" data-mid="218438281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2728bc5f18b519de7ab93a05d61197b8599a5954ca99c859a054305d669d1f1d/SoupcolourNeg0000.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1400" width_o="2048" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32159f4eb4f93b07ba0c0a9d7c6499597c1f378193c954c5d987e7524e54f37f/SoupcolourNeg0001.jpg" data-mid="218438280" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/432aa0b1b808353523d5f4dcd63162b7401f4b25f68e66ac8aca2e688851f254/SoupcolourNeg0005.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1359" width_o="2048" height_o="1359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aabc6374f565e02fb4f1c254479668b41ea30aeeea22487b9ec0306b3bef857/SoupcolourNeg0004.jpg" data-mid="218438283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aabc6374f565e02fb4f1c254479668b41ea30aeeea22487b9ec0306b3bef857/SoupcolourNeg0004.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1359" width_o="2048" height_o="1359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca84c24e473762931e33f6e5731249eb0a44513486d4be765c258b083613fca/SoupcolourNeg0002-2.jpg" data-mid="218438282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aca84c24e473762931e33f6e5731249eb0a44513486d4be765c258b083613fca/SoupcolourNeg0002-2.jpg" /> CANON REBEL 2000 EOS SLR KENTMERE ISO 100 35 MM FILM PROCESSED IN KODAK D76 for I had wished to rip my eyes out is a series of 39 photographs, scanned from a singular 36exp Kentmere ISO 100 B&amp;W 35mm film roll. The film was shot traditionally using a SLR camera and a 50mm prime lens. It was souped in a solution of vinegar and rusty metal, before being hand developed in Kodak D76. From start to finish, this project took about six weeks to complete. Scanned as negatives, trace deposits of rust appear as delicate blues and green hues. In this project I obtain 39 images from a 36 exp roll. Normally, around 4-5inches of the film strip is discarded prior to scanning: this is the segment of film that by necessity is exposed to light in the loading of the camera. In this processs, I found that the edge markings of the strip were in large part illegible, either faded away or warped. And so I ignored them, and scanned beyond the camera shot photographs. for I had wished to rip my eyes out speaks to a desire to collapse the material realities of a place, in this case the harvested iron, with its own image. It seeks to make visible the material of the film strip, to remind of the nature of the photograph, as light which floats between two objetcs. The project is accompanied by the 90s ultra short film ‘Imagine Democritus’ Screenings: Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, 90s films, 2025&nbsp; <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60df43565f502c51aaf61c54fcdf5deccc4ddf8d468129e0a72c18930759df29/IMG_20240605_001353594.jpg" data-mid="218455764" border="0" alt="rust and vinegar soup" data-caption="rust and vinegar soup" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60df43565f502c51aaf61c54fcdf5deccc4ddf8d468129e0a72c18930759df29/IMG_20240605_001353594.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32533066de8be618e136c5df3a358718ca954d11719e8e80993f212a8c0bf2d2/IMG_20240702_160551171.jpg" data-mid="218455763" border="0" alt="2 weeks post souping" data-caption="2 weeks post souping" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32533066de8be618e136c5df3a358718ca954d11719e8e80993f212a8c0bf2d2/IMG_20240702_160551171.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9ea9aca462ea4ee2bcae5c227119a7edaf52cb5e9b5f40d139c49070b323373/IMG_20240702_160518549.jpg" data-mid="218455762" border="0" alt="post processing" data-caption="post processing" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9ea9aca462ea4ee2bcae5c227119a7edaf52cb5e9b5f40d139c49070b323373/IMG_20240702_160518549.jpg" /> https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/03-AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:40:23 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/03-AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES 03 AUTO BIOGRAPHIES VIDEO 2024/1 CANON REBEL 2000 EOS SLR KENTMERE ISO 100 DEVELOPPED IN YARROW Auto|Biographies is an exploration of what it means to point a camera towards nature, and how the lens mimics the eye as a tool that perpetuates the biases implicit in human vision.Through a mixture of digital video and animated experimental analog photographic work, the mechanism of the camera, proxy of the eye, is dismantled. With minimal silent narration, the film invites the viewer onto an immersive journey—across green landscapes devoid of green, torn film and torn out eyes, and vegetal corpses — to rediscover the limits of their own vision and explore novel ways of presenting nature devoid of the human gaze. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cfec8d2f61006000e4448dea6148b4b753d053b2084cc83304129413c6e1248/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES_STILL--6.jpg" data-mid="230406969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cfec8d2f61006000e4448dea6148b4b753d053b2084cc83304129413c6e1248/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES_STILL--6.jpg" /> https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/04-ULTRAVIOLET-GARDENS Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:18:04 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/04-ULTRAVIOLET-GARDENS 04 ULTRAVIOLET GARDENS WRITING’ RESEARCH 2024/1 <img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/244c687d40477902415a1bf35fe669a5563da5156a25d0f3209f20197f654c8b/title.jpg" data-mid="218455671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/244c687d40477902415a1bf35fe669a5563da5156a25d0f3209f20197f654c8b/title.jpg" /> <img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" 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<img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7bdf0552b09bc07d0d7ef326f342f7980b90280c9a80e84d601dfbf1b7d340d/PAge-8.jpg" data-mid="218455220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7bdf0552b09bc07d0d7ef326f342f7980b90280c9a80e84d601dfbf1b7d340d/PAge-8.jpg" /> <img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8143f705fbfbb4c3e71b6da81cc81a509a8c6e01b0a7c1c79d0f5c9c550ab8c/PAge-4.jpg" data-mid="218455216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8143f705fbfbb4c3e71b6da81cc81a509a8c6e01b0a7c1c79d0f5c9c550ab8c/PAge-4.jpg" /> <img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1c438094f8dc6cc4f5217f691c5c730832e84a5cb06dea0634c6063e64ee40b/THESIS-MOCKUP-copie.jpg" data-mid="218480100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1c438094f8dc6cc4f5217f691c5c730832e84a5cb06dea0634c6063e64ee40b/THESIS-MOCKUP-copie.jpg" /> <img width="2167" height="1734" width_o="2167" height_o="1734" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17bfcdf945411e3bca4de9f82dd48bbecec720056e9c448c58bf2a66c7e5df32/PAge-9.jpg" data-mid="218480102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17bfcdf945411e3bca4de9f82dd48bbecec720056e9c448c58bf2a66c7e5df32/PAge-9.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ M.Arch Thesis University of Waterloo Ultraviolet Gardens, is the thesis book I presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Architecture. It was important to me, to avoid the rootedness of architectural sites, their boundaries and edges. I had a few options. I could center myself somewhere and in the way of Deleuze and Guattari, branch out from there, like a rhizome. I could create a mosaic of many places, in many times. Or I could focus on greenness, through its most obvious visual characteristic: the colour green. In doing so I could tie greenness to vision, and through vision to photography. Before addressing how we live, how we build, how we act, how we exist, in place or on site, I needed to speak to how we viewed it. Ultimately, greenness, as proposed in this thesis, is an acknowledgment of the material relations that shape and link plant-life to their Umwelt*. This thesis is a statement on how‘green’ exists solely as color, which has rendered our understanding of it banal. This thesis is also a counterstatement; an exploration into the ways greenness can be re-envisioned beyond the semiotics of green. ABSTRACT We live in a world shrouded in greenness. A world made of places, of places made of sites, of sites which make the landscape. I speak to all current and latent gardeners; to all of those unaware, yet fascinated by green. Ultraviolet Gardens invites you into a photographic garden; a reframing of how ‘green’ has been, can be, seen and rediscovered; to find greenness within plastic plants, fuzzy chlorophyll, and the illusions of green. Within ultraviolet gardens, the banal and mundane are estranged, and as such made visible. With film and photo making, I share the strange dimensions of greenness that arise in familiar places. Central to the argument is that a rediscovery of green must happen first by estrangement of the body, of both the external optics of vision and the internal perceptions of the mind. In the photographic process, an image is created when light reacts with a light sensitive surface. Silver halides are permanently converted to elemental silver, matter is changed by other non human matter; put in contact they create the repository of images central to this thesis: The Aesthetic of Contact. Not simply an image, the photograph, unlike painting or architectural drawing, shares more then just likeness to its subject; it is a part of, or an extension of its reality.I use camera-less and camera-using photography to curate a garden of images, not of ‘others’, but made in collaboration; autobiographies of the nonhuman. I seek through them an (un)representation of green that does not come from my sight, nor from architecture’s primacy of vision; a way of seeing capable of awakening a fascination of greenness. https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/05-SEEDS-LUMEN-PRINTING Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:36:30 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/05-SEEDS-LUMEN-PRINTING 05 SEEDS: LUMEN PRINTING GRAPHIC DESIGN, PHOTO 2024/1 <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8822ebc1a137e50f66c1acd36b7c634effa990947fbe04e97061718fbd372dee/IMG_7918.jpg" data-mid="218455483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8822ebc1a137e50f66c1acd36b7c634effa990947fbe04e97061718fbd372dee/IMG_7918.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c8f422b18dfecdd4b3f84adf3edbd15eb43abc9d071e2553d72346b6f10a85/IMG_8008.JPG" data-mid="221923674" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c8f422b18dfecdd4b3f84adf3edbd15eb43abc9d071e2553d72346b6f10a85/IMG_8008.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/729151adc1ecb8a38f30c7109e4d8592bf6784ce4ef2349bbd7147e873003179/IMG_8026.JPG" data-mid="221923677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/729151adc1ecb8a38f30c7109e4d8592bf6784ce4ef2349bbd7147e873003179/IMG_8026.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab666cc5a19dd93e6dbd54833f2fa7114a5a7100bb05543a30075b5efab290e0/IMG_8033.JPG" data-mid="221923678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab666cc5a19dd93e6dbd54833f2fa7114a5a7100bb05543a30075b5efab290e0/IMG_8033.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d39dbebef5a5ef9f06254d172674820fa6f6c32f7d31b5e152c74635fc24708/IMG_6623-copie.jpg" data-mid="218455504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d39dbebef5a5ef9f06254d172674820fa6f6c32f7d31b5e152c74635fc24708/IMG_6623-copie.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f85180b5ac4e1bcd1ab72bf2c2218ad494b775b95be0c36bd57e0a24cabf0e94/IMG_6891.JPG" data-mid="218455509" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f85180b5ac4e1bcd1ab72bf2c2218ad494b775b95be0c36bd57e0a24cabf0e94/IMG_6891.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd9c3cdbcd58bb6f02ca4eb239d3f7c978932d4e0f9c5c6f5dd4413df0e6f24d/IMG_6892.JPG" data-mid="218455507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd9c3cdbcd58bb6f02ca4eb239d3f7c978932d4e0f9c5c6f5dd4413df0e6f24d/IMG_6892.JPG" /> ︎︎︎ galt.publication issue 5 In collaboration with Magdalena Kaczmarczyk From Fall 2022 to Fall 2024, I worked in the Graphic Development of a series of lumen prints to be used across the fifth issue of galt. publication, a student-run, and peer-reviewed journal created at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. The prints were made from local flora, foraged from the parks surrounding the school, or bought as bouquets in the winter months. We organised three workshops with groups of undergraduate and graduate students, as we explored this new media together. https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/06-SEEDS Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:14:51 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/06-SEEDS 06 SEEDS EDITORIAL DESIGN 2024/1 <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c8f422b18dfecdd4b3f84adf3edbd15eb43abc9d071e2553d72346b6f10a85/IMG_8008.JPG" data-mid="221924176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c8f422b18dfecdd4b3f84adf3edbd15eb43abc9d071e2553d72346b6f10a85/IMG_8008.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1253a8926acaf9ed064ac9d1903d9a522c1a453481ac2d5b21975634868254a3/IMG_8011.JPG" data-mid="221924174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1253a8926acaf9ed064ac9d1903d9a522c1a453481ac2d5b21975634868254a3/IMG_8011.JPG" /> <img 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f9525371238be299adad3a3a6a66b45074081ce0e033c60422d7089e3b012c4/IMG_7997.JPG" data-mid="221924169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f9525371238be299adad3a3a6a66b45074081ce0e033c60422d7089e3b012c4/IMG_7997.JPG" /> ︎︎︎ galt.publication issue 5 From Fall 2022 to Fall 2024, I worked as Lead Editor the fifth issue of galt. publication, a student-run, and peer-reviewed journal created at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/08-L-air-est-lourd Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:36:25 +0000 Cassandra Lesage https://cassandralesage.cargo.site/08-L-air-est-lourd 08 L’air est lourd CURATORIAL 2026/1 <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ec36a288b76d8212a60493113ce80d1718e3e9d051de0b896e2f0688fb424d0/AWE-032326-399.jpg" data-mid="247060735" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/368488fd528965ee6e4194dddbeb66a8ca4496a87cbff7351c835efedce00080/AWE-032326-348.jpg" data-mid="247060740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/368488fd528965ee6e4194dddbeb66a8ca4496a87cbff7351c835efedce00080/AWE-032326-348.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a91e51be09baa54ce379f82be37620c225026a208cd0f32330ea684e1962a812/AWE-032326-351.jpg" data-mid="247060739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a91e51be09baa54ce379f82be37620c225026a208cd0f32330ea684e1962a812/AWE-032326-351.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ l’air est lourd exhibition text Curated by Cassandra Lesage Fongué. Produced in collaboration with BRAVOArt and Art Windsor-Essex. ‘L’air est lourd’, a group exhibition organized by Cassandra Lesage Fongué, approaches the storm not as a distant natural phenomenon, but as an immersive system — slow, certain, already at work. In the age of the Anthropocene that we now inhabit, ‘L’air est lourd’ invites us to consider the storm as a potent metaphor for the climatic transformations that envelop us. The air is heavy: the storm has not yet broken; it is not yet raining. And yet, everything is charged, vibrating with anticipation. We know that the storm is underway, we had forecasted it. After all, we have created not only the tools of meteorological prediction, but also the mechanisms that engendered it. The exhibition features work by Lisa Hirmer, Laura Demers, Hala Alsalman, and Katherine Takpannie. Together, they explore the nature of artificial clouds, the atmosphere shaped by human hubris, the slow transformations, and the minute signs of atmospheric change. The works question how meteorological precarity manifests through the emission and unfolding of warning signals. They also evoke post-disaster worlds where myth and prediction blur, weaving cyclical forms of archaeology. Photo: Frank Piccolo